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by Naomi Klein


  see also First Nations; specific peoples

  Indigenous peoples, land rights of, 7, 26, 182, 365–66, 367–87, 418

  anti-tar sands movement and, 322

  Canadian Supreme Court upholding of, 368, 371–72

  climate change and, 380–84, 385

  conflict with non-Natives over, 371–74

  government and corporate opposition to, 369–70, 381–82

  as impetus for uniting of Indigenous peoples and non-Natives, 373–74, 380–84

  land-sharing provisions in, 372

  lawsuits over, 368, 371–72, 378–80, 384, 386, 451

  as routinely ignored, 377–78

  Standard & Poor’s and, 367–69, 383

  trumped by socioeconomic power of extractive industries, 384–87

  individualism, 36, 48, 56–57, 462

  industrialized nations, see developed world

  Industrial Revolution, 18, 25, 157, 175–76, 177, 409

  colonialism and, 171, 175, 457

  slavery and, 415–16

  steam engine in, 171–73

  infertility, in humans:

  environmental damage and, 424–25, 428–30

  stress and, 437

  infertility, in marine life:

  BP spill and, 431–33

  climate change and, 433–34

  infrastructures:

  energy-related, 23

  investment in, 108–9, 454

  transportation, 85, 124, 127, 318–19, 342, 370; see also railways

  urban, 51, 122

  Ingraffea, Anthony, 214

  Inner Mongolia, anti-coal movement in, 300

  Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 99–100, 209

  Institute for Marine Mammal Studies (IMMS), 432–33

  Institute for Policy Studies, 224

  insurance, 234

  disaster, 109–10

  profit motive and, 49–51, 105

  Intellectual Ventures, 262, 264, 289

  Inter-American Court of Human Rights, 376

  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 33, 39, 73–74, 79, 80, 143, 150, 152

  Interior Department, U.S., 333, 375–76

  International Development Department, U.K., 87

  International Energy Agency (IEA), 23, 59, 100, 152

  warming report of, 14–15

  World Energy Outlook report of, 147

  International Labour Organization, 127

  International Monetary Fund (IMF), 81

  austerity policies promoted by, 77

  on carbon tax, 114

  free-market ideology and, 62

  international trade, 26, 64–73, 76–77

  climate protection and, 77

  exporting of dirty production in, 79

  see also free trade agreements

  Intervale, 404–5

  Inuit, 375

  Inupiat, 375–76

  investment:

  in extractive industries, 235–37, 352

  in infrastructures, 108–9, 454

  socially responsible, 402–3

  see also divestment movement; green technology, investment in

  in vitro fertilization (IVF), 421

  Iran, 454

  Irene, Hurricane, 108, 404

  Isaacs, Mark, 167

  “Is Earth F**ked?” (Werner), 449–50

  Ishpingo oil field, 410

  island states, low-lying, 12

  Istanbul, 23, 157

  Italy, 65, 154, 225

  Ithaca, N.Y., 316–17

  Ithaca College, 317

  Jackson, Tim, 93

  Jackson, Wes, 438, 439–40, 446

  Jacobin, 94

  Jacobson, Mark Z., 101, 102, 137, 214–15

  Jacques, Peter, 38

  Jakarta, 223

  James, Jewell Praying Wolf, 323

  Japan, 68, 69

  Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, 65

  Jevons, William Stanley, 29

  job creation, 70, 93, 118, 121, 126–28, 141, 154, 237–38

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 73, 261

  Jonah Field, 215

  Jones, Mary Harris “Mother,” 367

  Jones, Van, 156

  Jordan, John, 405

  Jost, John T., 57

  Journal of Geophysical Research, 270

  JP Morgan, 215

  Juhasz, Antonia, 111–12

  Kaczynski, Ted, 41–42

  Kahan, Dan, 36–37, 56–57

  Kaiama, Nigeria, 307

  Kaiama Declaration, 307–8

  Kakarapalli, India, 350

  Kalamazoo River, 331, 338

  Karoo, South Africa, 347

  Kartha, Sivan, 388, 465

  Kasser, Tim, 60

  Katmai eruption (1912), 273–74

  Katrina, Hurricane, 4, 9, 47n, 105, 407, 465

  Kearl open-pit mine, 145, 147

  Keeter, Scott, 35

  Keith, David, 247, 254, 263, 268, 269, 275, 280, 281

  Kennedy, Robert, Jr., 356n

  Kenya, 109, 202

  Kernza, 440

  Kerry, John, 34, 225

  Keynes, John Maynard, 178

  Keynesianism, 38, 75, 125

  growth and, 178

  Keystone XL pipeline, 139–41, 149, 197, 205, 237, 245, 302–3, 312

  campaign against, 301–3, 304, 318, 323–24, 359, 403

  eminent domain laws and, 361

  Indigenous land rights violated by, 375

  landowner suits against, 313, 361

  Ogallala Aquifer route of, 346

  Khor, Martin, 77

  Kibale National Park, 222

  Kilimanjaro Energy, 247

  killifish, BP oil spill and, 432

  Kinder Morgan, 217

  King, Jeff, 395, 396

  King, Lucas, 397

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 449, 453

  Kintisch, Eli, 263

  Kitimat, Canada, 302

  Kivalina, 112

  Klare, Michael T., 320

  Klaus, Václav, 42–43

  Klein, Naomi (author):

  ecological despair of, 419–20

  fertility crisis of, 420–25, 427, 436–37, 441–42

  pregnancy and childbirth of, 419, 440, 448

  Kliegerman, Stephen G., 51

  Knight, Alan, 246, 252–53

  Koch, Charles and David, 44, 45, 227

  Koch Industries, 44

  Koenig, Kevin, 411

  Koonin, Steven, 282

  Krupp, Fred, 191, 207–8, 226–29, 356n

  Kyoto Protocol, 69, 76, 77, 79, 150, 165, 218–19

  labor, 176, 177

  cheap, 81–83

  cooperative, 122–23

  in Industrial Revolution, 171

  public sector, 157

  labor movement, see trade unions

  Laboucan-Massimo, Melina, 322

  Labrador, 348

  Lac-Mégantic, Canada, oil train disaster at, 311–12, 332, 333

  LaDuke, Winona, 443

  laissez-faire economics, see free-market ideology

  Laki eruption (1783), 273

  Lakota Nation, 375

  Lame Deer, Mont., 390, 395

  Lameman, Al, 378–79

  Lameman, Crystal, 379

  Lamkin, John, 426

  Lander, Edgardo, 363

  land ethic, 184

  Land Institute, 438, 439–40

  land management, 91

  land rights, of Indigenous peoples, see Indigenous peoples, land rights of

  Lane, Lee, 282–83

  Lang, Chris, 223

  Lasch, Christopher, 117

  Latin America:

  colonial land grabs in, 414

  overdependence on resource extraction in, 179–82

  Latour, Bruno, 278–79

  Laval, Canada, 313

  La Via Campesina, 134

  Lawson, Nigel, 42

  Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 314

  Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards, 406
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  lead particulates, 203

  Leard State Forest (Australia), 301

  Lee, Marc, 112

  left wing:

  climate change and, 63

  extractivism and, 178–82

  political potential of climate change ignored by, 157

  traditional institutions of, 158

  legislation, environmental, 141, 150–51

  Lehrer, Eli, 50–51, 234

  Leidreiter, Anna, 97

  Leopold, Aldo, 184–85

  Levitt, Steven D., 262–63, 271–72

  Lewis, Wayne, 64

  Liberal Party (Canadian), 36

  liberals, climate change and, 61–62, 156

  Li Bo, 351, 352

  Liepert, Ron, 312

  lifestyle changes, 4, 17–18, 91

  Lifton, Robert Jay, 57

  Limits to Growth (Club of Rome), 185–86, 207

  Lipow, Gar, 113

  liquid nature, 223–24

  Little Red, 242

  Liverpool, 172

  Living in Denial (Norgaard), 462

  LNG (liquefied natural gas), 376

  local hiring, 92

  local power, 96

  local production, 7, 68–70, 71, 76, 85–86

  of food, 90, 134–35, 222, 404–5

  London, 13, 148, 172

  Lone Pine Resources, 358–59

  long-haul transportation, 83, 84, 85

  long-range planning, 95, 124–26

  and jobs, 126–28

  for power, 128–36

  Longueuil, Canada, 313

  Los Angeles, Calif., 13

  Los Angeles Times, 272, 300

  Losing Ground (Dowie), 84, 203

  Louisiana, 330, 431

  Love Canal Homeowners Association, 206

  Lovell, Evan, 239, 240

  Lovelock, James, 231

  love of place, in Blockadia movement, 337–66

  low-carbon economy, 16, 21, 91, 93

  for developing world, 76

  infrastructure in, 72, 124

  low-consumption activities, 93–94

  Lower Elwah Klallam, 374–75

  Lubicon Lake First Nation, 322

  Lukacs, Martin, 383

  Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio, 179

  Lummi Nation, 322–23, 370, 374, 389

  Lynas, Mark, 279

  Lynchburg, Va., 333

  Maccario, Paolo, 65–66, 68–69

  McClendon, Aubrey, 312, 356

  McCright, Aaron, 46–47

  MacDonald, Christine, 189

  McDonald’s, 196, 208

  McIntosh, Alastair, 210

  McKibben, Bill, 139–40, 148, 353–54, 404

  Madagascar, 220, 221–22

  Madrid, 157

  Maegaard, Preben, 132

  Magna, 68

  Maher, Bill, 137

  Maine, 435

  malaria, 109

  Malawi, agroecology in, 135

  Maldives, 13

  Mali, 270

  Maliseet First Nation, 371–72

  Malm, Andreas, 80–81, 172, 394

  Manchester, England, 172, 300

  Manhattan Project, 278

  Manne, Robert, 41

  Mann, Michael, 55–56, 107

  Manuel, Arthur, 367–69, 383

  Mao Zedong, 178

  Marcellus Shale, 312, 328

  marine life:

  climate change and, 433–35

  food chain in, 259

  impact of Deepwater Horizon spill on, 425–26, 431–34, 451

  impact of Exxon Valdez oil spill on, 337–39

  oceanic acidification and, 259, 434

  Marine Stewardship Council, 209

  markets:

  carbon, 211

  cyclical nature of, 225

  expansion of, 171

  limits of, 136–39, 142

  see also free-market ideology

  Marom, Yotam, 153

  Mars, terraforming of, 288

  Marshall, Donald, Jr., 372

  Marshall, George, 213

  Marshall decision, 371–72, 374

  Marshall Plan for the Earth, 5–7, 40

  Martínez, Esperanza, 176, 304, 408–9

  Marx, Karl, 177

  materialism, 25, 60

  Matsés people, 220–21

  Maules Creek mining project, 300–301

  Maxmin, Chloe, 354

  May, Brendan, 249n

  Means, Landon, 395

  meat, demand for, 14

  media:

  climate change denial and, 34

  elite control over, 18, 369–70

  Meeting Environmental Challenges (Kasser and Crompton), 60

  Melbourne, Australia, 446

  Melbourne, University of, Energy Institute of, 102

  Men’s Health, 429

  Merchant, Carolyn, 395

  Merchants of Doubt (film), 42

  mercury, 176, 203

  Merkel, Angela, 136, 141, 218

  Mesoamerica, 439

  methane, 15, 143–44, 214, 217, 222, 304

  in water supply, 328–29, 332

  Métis, 371

  Mexico, 19, 68, 81, 82, 84, 202

  Zapatista uprising in, 182

  Mexico, Gulf of, 147, 330

  see also BP, Deepwater Horizon disaster of

  Meyer, Alden, 200–201

  Miami University, 401

  Michaels, Patrick, 32, 33, 45, 47, 48, 142

  Michigan, Enbridge pipeline rupture in, 331–32, 338

  Microsoft, 237

  migrants, 154, 166–67

  climate refugees, 7

  Mi’kmaq, 299, 303, 371–74, 381

  Mi’kmaq Warrior Society, 373

  military budgets, 114

  military, U.S., petroleum consumed by, 113

  Mill, John Stuart, 178

  Millennium Pipeline, 317

  Miller, Colin, 157

  Mills, Christina, 313

  Minerals Management Service, 333–34

  mining, 91n, 173, 176

  mountaintop removal, 303, 309, 310, 329, 353

  open-pit, 180, 296, 325, 329, 348, 445

  see also specific projects

  Minisink, N.Y., 317

  Minnesota, 27

  Minnesota, University of, Institute on the Environment at, 58

  miscarriages, environmental toxins linked to, 424–25, 429, 439

  Mississippi, 431

  Mississippi River:

  drought of 2012 in, 2–3

  flooding of 2011 in, 3

  Mississippi River Delta, ecological damage in, 425–26

  Mitchell, Stacy, 209

  Mobil, 192

  Mohave Generating Station, 398

  Mohit, Nastaran, 103–5

  Molina, Patricia, 182

  Monbiot, George, 363–64

  Monsanto, 9, 80, 135, 196

  monsoons, 268, 269, 270, 273–74, 287

  Montana, 53n, 318, 370, 381

  coal mining in, 320, 342–43, 346, 370, 388–93, 395, 397, 445

  Environmental Quality Department of, 397

  State Land Board of, 389

  Monterey Shale, 347

  Montreal, Canada, 313

  Montreal, Maine & Atlantic railroad, 333

  Montreal Protocol on ozone depletion, 220

  moose, disappearance of, 26–27

  Morales, Evo, 180–81

  moral hazard, geoengineering and, 261

  moral imperative:

  in abolition movement, 462–63

  in climate movement, 336, 386–87, 464

  divestment movement and, 354–55

  in social movements, 462, 463–64

  Morano, Marc, 32, 34, 45

  Morton, Oliver, 259

  Mosaddegh, Mohammad, 454

  Moses, Marlene, 64, 449

  Mossville, La., 429–30

  Mother Earth, see Earth Mother/Mother Earth concept

  Mount Elgon National Park, 222

  Movement Generation, 448

  Movement for the
Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), 306

  Mueller, Tadzio, 138

  Muir, John, 183–84, 211

  Mukherji, Joydeep, 368–69

  multinational corporations:

  cheapest labor force and, 81–82

  export-led development and, 82, 412

  Mumbai, 13

  Munich, Germany, 97

  Murdoch, Rupert, 35

  Myhrvold, Nathan, 262, 264, 269, 277, 280, 281

  Nagasaki, atomic bombing of, 277–78

  Narain, Sunita, 96, 414

  NASA, 14, 152

  earth-from-space photographs by, 286

  Goddard Institute for Space Studies at, 22, 73

  NatCen Social Research, 117

  Nation, 420

  National Academy of Sciences, U.S., 152, 282

  National Association of Manufacturers, 227

  National Audubon Society, 84

  National Center for Atmospheric Research, 272

  National Energy Board, Canada, 362

  National Environment Appellate Authority, India, 350

  National Guard, 103

  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S., 102, 426, 432–33, 434, 436

  national security, 49

  National Toxics Campaign, 206

  National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, 253

  National Wildlife Federation, 84, 185, 191, 226, 390, 393

  Native American cosmologies, 184

  natural gas, 67, 102, 219

  Big Green’s advocacy of, 199–201, 235n, 236

  as bridge fuel, 128–30, 211, 213–14, 252, 257, 287

  climate benefits of, 144n

  conventional, 215

  flaring of, 305–6

  fracking and, see fracking

  renewables displaced by, 44n, 128–30, 214–16, 252

  for vehicles, 237

  Willett’s support for, 235–36

  natural gas industry:

  Sierra Club and, 197

  strategic miscalculations by, 316–17

  Natural Resource Partners, 349

  Natural Resources Defense Council, 84, 115, 198, 205, 213, 226, 325, 357

  Move America Beyond Oil campaign, 231

  Nature, 37, 259

  nature:

  delayed response of, 175

  fertility cycle of, 438–39, 446–48

  legal rights of, 443–45

  steam power and freedom from, 172–74

  Nature Climate Change, 290

  Nature Conservancy, 191–95, 196, 206, 208n, 210, 212n, 226, 233n, 355

  Business Council of, 196

  fracking supported by, 215

  oil and gas drilling by, 192–95, 196, 206, 215, 451

  Paraná offset and, 221, 222

  Nauru, 64, 161–69, 175, 187, 221n, 311

  Australian offshore refugee detention center on, 166–67

  independence of, 162

  phosphate of lime in, 162–63

  Navajo, 398–99

  Navarro Llanos, Angélica, 5–7, 40, 409

  Navigable Waters Protection Act, gutting of, 381–82

  Nebraska, 403

  Nelson, Gaylord, 153

  neoliberalism, 39, 43, 72–73, 80, 131, 132, 154, 158, 466

  Netherlands, 99

  anti-fracking movement in, 348

 

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